Sun.Jun 19, 2022

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Torrent Site Blockades Don’t Change Old Piracy Habits Right Away

TorrentFreak

In March, a Dutch court ordered local ISP Delta to block access to the torrent sites 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG, Kickasstorrents and EZTV. In addition to the main domains, a long list of proxies and mirrors are included as well. And if new domains pop up, these can be swiftly blocked too. This is the second site blocking order in the Netherlands and a big win for local anti-piracy outfit BREIN.

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Delhi High Court on ‘Specified Value’ of IP suits under Commercial Courts Act

SpicyIP

Justice Pratibha Singh of the Delhi High Court, vide judgment dated 3 June 2022 in Vishal Pipes Limited v. Bhavya Pipe Industry , held that all the IPR disputes, irrespective of their valuations, should be listed before the commercial district court judges. If the subject-matter IP is valued below 3 lakhs rupees, the Court will examine whether the valuation is correct or not.

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Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names

Likelihood of Confusion

Nominative fair — the “unauthorized” use of a trademark as a trademark specifically to invoke the trademark, as opposed to its “non-trademark” use to describe the alleged infringer’s goods or services. The post Nominative fair use: The Second Circuit names names appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IP Reveries: Class 4.1 Ruminating on the “R – Rights” of IPR!

SpicyIP

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings. The series is authored by Lokesh Vyas and myself in equal measure.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Naison Seery

Herbert Smith Freehills

Profile Picture : First Name : Naison. Last Name : Seery. Job Title : Senior Associate. Phone Number : +61 3 9288 1873 +61 3 9288 1873. Email : Email naison.seery@hsf.com.

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni

Patently-O

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Christopher Yasiejko: Apple Escapes Potential New Trial in $506 Million Patent Dispute (Source: Bloomberg Law). Blake Brittain: Apple Loses Bid for Third Trial in $300 Million Wireless Patent Case (Source: Reuters). Blake Brittain: U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Review Amazon, Websites’ Win in Patent Case (Source: Reuters).

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Quick Links from the Past Year, Part 4 (The Algorithms; Facebook)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[Shoutout to all of the dads out there! ]. The Algorithms. * What would happen if FB turned off its newsfeed algorithm? In February 2018, a Facebook researcher all but shut off the News Feed ranking algorithm for.05% of Facebook users. “What happens if we delete ranked News Feed?” they asked in an internal report summing up the experiment. Their findings: Without a News Feed algorithm, engagement on Facebook drops significantly, people hide 50% more posts, content from Facebook Groups rises to t

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